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hash functions should not be required to accept two arguments William D Clinger (09 Nov 2015 17:42 UTC)
Re: hash functions should not be required to accept two arguments William D Clinger (10 Nov 2015 12:02 UTC)
Re: hash functions should not be required to accept two arguments taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (10 Nov 2015 13:00 UTC)
Re: hash functions should not be required to accept two arguments John Cowan (10 Nov 2015 13:58 UTC)
Re: hash functions should not be required to accept two arguments William D Clinger (10 Nov 2015 13:50 UTC)
Re: hash functions should not be required to accept two arguments taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (10 Nov 2015 14:27 UTC)
Hash salt John Cowan (10 Nov 2015 06:37 UTC)
Re: Hash salt taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (10 Nov 2015 10:00 UTC)
Re: Hash salt John Cowan (11 Nov 2015 05:21 UTC)
Re: Hash salt Shiro Kawai (11 Nov 2015 05:59 UTC)
Re: Hash salt John Cowan (11 Nov 2015 06:22 UTC)
Re: Hash salt taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (11 Nov 2015 07:54 UTC)
Re: hash functions should not be required to accept two arguments taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (10 Nov 2015 09:58 UTC)

Re: hash functions should not be required to accept two arguments John Cowan 10 Nov 2015 13:58 UTC

Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer scripsit:

> OK, in any case SRFI-126 is now agnostic to the maximum value a hash
> function can return.  User-defined hash functions may return any exact
> integer, and an implementation may do what it wants for its standard
> equal-hash and string-hash functions.

I'm going with that too for SRFI 128.  The sample implementation
assumes that reducing mod 2^20 is better than taking the risk of
overflow into a flonum, but that's only one possible way to do it.

> SRFI-126 hash functions are now fully equivalent to R6RS hash functions
> again, unless I'm forgetting something.

Right.

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